TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A cup of tea can soothe your spirit, but drinking a couple of cups each day may also lower your chances of dying early, new research suggests. In the study of nearly 500,000 men and women who took part in the U.K. Biobank,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Access to paid sick leave saves lives, new research shows. The U.S. study found that when local laws required employers to provide paid sick leave, lower death rates from homicide, suicide and alcohol-related causes resulted. The researchers also believe that recent upticks inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 vaccines do not increase your risk for stroke, new research shows, but severe COVID infection does, and experts hope the finding will ease the concerns of those who are hesitant to get the shot. “We now know that patients who’ve had aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The most widespread form of bullying isn’t physical acts like pushing or kicking, nor is it verbal threats or derogatory remarks. Far and away bullies’ top tactic is social exclusion. Also known as “relational aggression,” this involves shutting out peers from group activitiesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — U.S. doctors administered more than 150,000 doses of useless monoclonal antibody treatments to COVID-19 patients early this year, spending loads of cash on therapies that had been deemed of no benefit, a new study has found. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration deauthorizedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The days of getting free COVID-19 tests by mail are drawing to a close. The Biden administration plans to stop sending test kits to Americans on Sept. 2 in order to reserve remaining tests for a fall surge. Lack of funding from CongressContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Labor shortages at Teva Pharmaceuticals have made Adderall, a widely used attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug, hard to find in some drugstores. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration noted that there’s no overall shortage of ADHD medications. Only Teva is reporting supply problems,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Trista Hamsmith’s 18-month-old daughter, Reese, died after swallowing a button battery that slipped out of a remote control in the fall of 2020, and the mom-turned-advocate has spent the past two years trying to make sure no other child dies this way. HerContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Although there’s now enough monkeypox vaccine to go around, the Americans who need it most still may not be getting it, a new report shows. Only 10% of the Jynneos vaccine doses have been given to Black people, even though they make upContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In yet another example of the financial toll that the new coronavirus has exacted during the pandemic, a new report estimates that up to 4 million Americans are out of work as they struggle with long COVID. “This is a shocking number,” reportContinue Reading